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Crikey. That's outrageous. £670 for that??? Be interesting to see what feedback gets left for this one.....

[quote name='chrismuzz' timestamp='1349380393' post='1825626'] I don't even have to click on the link to know who you've quoted do I? [/quote] That made me chuckle as I was thinking exactly the same thing!!

[quote name='loki' timestamp='1349186695' post='1822961'] Hey Jez, how did you get on with this? Scott. [/quote] Hi Scott, I sort of bottled it!! I decided to put LEDs on the front of the fretboard rather than on the edge - I decided that might be easiest for my first attempt at this! I made a strip of LEDs (as detailed previously in this thread) and used 1mm fibre optic cable to make the markers on the fretboard. These are just about invisible until you turn the LEDs on. I was careful to place the markers so they would be between the strings rather than under them. The only thing that was a bit awkward was that with using surface mount LEDs about 0.8mm x 1.6mm in size along with 1mm diameter fibre optic, you've got to be [u]really[/u] accurate in locating them. I was fractionally (about 0.5mm) out on a couple and they don't shine quite so brightly on the fretboard - not much different, but enough that I notice!! In hindsight, I could have done the edge markers without too much bother but I'd already commited to doing the fretboard by that point. Next time I'll use some slightly larger LEDs if its for the fretboard, or I'll just have to be a little more accurate if I decide to put edge markers on. One thing I did try was using white heat shrink over the 1mm fibre optic cable to give a really nice looking marker for dark wood fretboards - stands out nicely when LEDs are off and then looked good with the LEDs on. I'll stick a couple of photos up tomorrow, but it turned out ok overall. I'm still building the bass, which is coming on nicely. Just thinking of how to make the connection to a battery through contacts on the neck and in the pocket was enough of a headache also. As with all these sorts of things, I've learnt quite a few lessons along the way. It's been great to get advice from yourself and other folk on this forum - saved me making some mistakes and given me ideas for next time. Cheers again Jez

Thanks for the details. Might be safe then - I'll just carry on as (sort of) planned!! Cheers

I've just thinned the neck for a 5 string bass I'm building and I'm wondering if it is too thin. The router moved a little while I was doing this and I've taken about 2mm more than I wanted off the thickness of the neck. The neck is now uniformly 23mm thick across the length - I didn't really want it to be less than 25mm thick. Does anyone know if 23mm is too thin and will cause me any problems? (It's made from quarter sawn maple with a wenge fretboard) If it is, I'll fix a new bit of maple to the back and reshape, should be able to make it decorative to hid my mistake!! Cheers Jez

[quote name='LukeFRC' timestamp='1348526021' post='1814926'] nice. What do you use to cut the frets? that's the one bit I know I would struggle to do with accuracy. [/quote] I bought the fretboard pre-slotted for this one. Can't remember exactly where I got it from - think it was from a seller on eBay who cut it for me.

Started shaping the body a bit more......getting there, but slowly!!